The Temple’s Pisces Ministry is pleased to announce High Priestess Sellena (Amanda Dear) has accepted an invitation to become our third deputy minister, rounding out our ministry. Sellena is a wonderful addition to Pisces, bringing her creativity, wisdom, and magick to our monthly meetings. As a Pisces celebrant she offers community Wheel of the Year sabbats and other events to the community in the Jackson, Mississippi area, as well as teaching for the Mystery School there. Her Read More...

by Christopher Penczak, edited by Tina Whittle Gnosis is one of the major points of a Mystery Tradition. One need not call themselves a gnostic—considering some of the dualistic baggage that term often implies—to seek this insight. Gnosis is the direct intuitive knowledge from experience of a different order of reality, in contrast to episteme, logical and reasoned knowing from experience of the empirical order of everyday reality. Both knowledges use different criteria and context. Judging gnosis Read More...

Mercury retrograde has just kicked in. The energy crisis is intense in Europe and inflation is a fact. What is there to do? Well, as magickal people and witches we know there is always something that can be done. Even a minor change of mood, a glimpse of hope or a boost of determination can make a big change in the end of how we get through a crisis. So let´s take a look at the stars Read More...

The Temple of Witchcraft is excited to announce our newest board members. Deborah Stellhorn and Dan Lupacchino will join the Board  of Directors for the 2022-2024 session as two of the three voting advisors to the board, serving alongside current board members Elsa Elliott (Voting Advisor), Steve Kenson (Secretary), Jocelyn Van Bokkelen (Treasurer), Christopher Penczak (Vice-President), and Adam Sartwell (President). Debbie is an ordained high priestess in the Temple, fundraising coordinator, former Templefest housing coordinator, deputy in the Sagittarius Ministry Read More...

In this episode of Voices of the Temple, host Adam Sartwell talks with Dawn Costorf and Renee Bedard, deputy ministers of the Virgo Ministry, about their work with healing and the ministry's healing deities series online Read More...

By Renee Bedard The solemn act of lighting candles in the silence of the night. The seductive lure of being wrapped in the heady scents of sacred smoke. The slow, steady breaths we purposefully take that leads us to our center once again. Circles are cast to celebrate the ever-turning wheel honoring the seasons and cycles and the partnership between the beings of spirit and beings of flesh. Body positions and deliberate, thoughtful movements help build energy Read More...

Ravenstarr DeFisser is a High Priestess at the Temple Of Witchcraft in Salem NH. Ravenstarr is a Deputy Minister of Cancer Ministry. She runs the kitchen at Temple rituals and helps organize donations to the community. She enjoys connecting with her spiritual sisters in Women's Circle. Ravenstarr has been a witch all her life. She’s a gamer and a giant nerd. Ravenstarr lives in New Hampshire with her family and fur babies Read More...

by Christopher Penczak, edited by Tina Whittle I’ve seen a lot of talk lately in our esoteric communities about our values. It always makes me wince a little. I remember the era, which never really left us, of family values meaning Christian values or traditional mainstream nuclear family values rooted in a naive vision of the 1950s. I remember the Parental Advisory Explicit Content warning labels of the music of my youth, a scheme by Tipper Gore Read More...

Michael Usher is a High Priest of the Temple of Witchcraft and Capricorn Lead Minister. He has served as a Light Bearer for the Temple of Witchcraft community, continues to volunteer as a mentor to students in the Mystery School, works with the Pisces Ministry offering public sabbat celebrations and is a member of Team Templefest. Michael currently resides in Palm Beach Gardens, FL, with his husband and two rescue pups. His life-long career has been in Read More...